Nine Quotes - Page 13

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.